The Islamic State group on Tuesday claimed responsibility for its first attack on US soil in which two gunmen were killed after opening fire at an event in Texas showcasing cartoons mocking the Prophet Mohammed.

The Cairo Criminal Court postponed Tuesday the trial session against former president Mohamed Morsi and 10 other defendants, accused of espionage with Qatar, to a Wednesday session.

An improvised explosive device (IED) went off in an apartment in the Nasr City neighbourhood, injuring two. The IED exploded in the apartment, rented by three Al-Azhar University students, Tuesday in the east Cairo neighbourhood. Two of the students were injured in the incident, and were transported to hospital, while police detained the third pending investigations, a Ministry of Interior statement read.

Egyptian officials say suspected Islamic militants have attacked a security forces' base in northern Sinai, near the border with Gaza. There was no immediate word on casualties.

An Egyptian court on Monday condemned five supporters of ousted President Mohamed Morsi to death for storming a police station and killing 11 police officers.

When Al-Qaeda overran the Yemeni port city of Mukalla last month, the group's commanders immediately struck a deal to share power with the area's tribesmen. No jihadi banners were raised. Al-Qaeda even issued a statement denying rumors that it had banned music at parties or men wearing shorts.

The Cairo Criminal Court postponed to 6 June the “Tanta Jihadist cell” trial, in which 13 alleged “Islamic State” (IS) affiliates are being tried for committing crimes targeting high-profile security personnel.

An army conscript who was injured in a North Sinai blast early Sunday succumbed to wounds sustained by the explosion, medical sources at Arish Public Hospital said.

Prosecutors referred 40 people to criminal court on Sunday after an investigation revealed that they communicated with Islamic State fighters in Iraq and Syria, judicial sources said.

Egypt's armed forces has killed 29 suspected militants in raids on North Sinai from April 20 to 30, the army spokesman announced on Saturday.

Hijab Selfie, a counter-movement to a call by presenter Sherif Choubachy for women who wear the Islamic head covering to remove it in Tahrir Square, has mobilized men and women.

Egyptian authorities have uncovered a Muslim Brotherhood plot to assassinate the imprisoned former Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi in order to spark an Islamist revolution in the country which would overthrow the current regime, Jordanian daily Alarab Alyawm quoted an Egyptian security source as saying Sunday.

A Nile Delta prosecutor says he has charged 40 people with belonging to the Islamic State militant group and planning to carry out terrorist attacks in Egypt.

In an exclusive extended interview with Spanish daily El-Mundo del Siglo Veintiuno published on Wedne, Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi has said former rulers and now-outlawed Islamist group the Muslim Brotherhood have the right to defend their ideas, but are not allowed to impose them on Egyptians.

Some 73 tribes are uniting to assist the military and police in Sinai to fight “terrorist” groups located in Sinai, a leader within the Bedouin Tarabin tribe said Wednesday.

Photojournalist Ahmed Gamal Ziada, along with twelve other defendants, was acquitted of all charges Wednesday in the Al-Azhar University clashes case.

A five-year old child was killed on Thursday when an explosion occurred outside his home in a city in Sharqiya, north of Cairo, the governorate's security director said.

Dr. Andrea Zaki, head of the Evangelical Church in Egypt, said the Synod of the Nile which includes the General Congregation Council for the Evangelical Presbyterian Church and representatives of the congregation will resolve the issue of ordaining women as priests, in its annual meeting next Sunday the 2nd of May.

The Nasr City Misdemeanour Court rejected Tuesday the appeal of former Sharqeya governor Hassan El-Naggar against a four-year prison sentence, but reduced the original sentence to two years in prison.

The Cairo Criminal Court acquitted on Wednesday 13 defendants of the charge of rioting in al-Azhar University in December 2013, sentencing 63 others to prison in the same case.

The Giza Criminal Court sentenced on Wednesday 71 defendants to life in prison for breaking into a church in Kerdasa and torching it in August 2013, reported the state agency MENA.